In consequence of d'Estrees' evidence, Molinos was closely confined by the inquisition, where he continued for some time, during which [148] period all was quiet, and his followers prosecuted their mode without interruption.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Mr. Brooke, indeed, confident of doing everything agreeable which Casaubon, poor fellow, was too much absorbed to think of, had arranged to bring Ladislaw to Lowick several times (not neglecting meanwhile to introduce him elsewhere on every opportunity as "a young relative of Casaubon's").
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Wherefore mind too, confess we must, dissolves, Seeing, indeed, contagions of disease Enter into the same.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

In case of danger, each corps commander should change this order of march, by having his advance and rear brigades unencumbered by wheels.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

This policeman, as I heard afterwards, had been told off by the chief of police to watch over Andrey Antonovitch, to do his utmost to get him home, and in case of danger even to use force—a task evidently beyond the man’s power.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It gets larger, for example, in cases of dynamogenic excitation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I called on Don Emmanuel de Roda, who was a man of letters, a ‘rara avis’ in Spain.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

the author who writes concerning it the least indistinctly, says, that it was imposed upon all successions, legacies and donations, in case of death, except upon those to the nearest relations, and to the poor.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Then the inexplicable charms of danger excite the sportsman's feelings; his physical faculties, like those [Pg 169] of the Indian, are doubled; he grasps his rifle with a firmer clutch, and looks down the blade of his hunting-knife with anxiety and yet with satisfaction.
— from Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle

The light of nature (the reason and the conscience) is able only to convince us of sin and not to give us complete information concerning our duty,— e.g. , the lofty moral principle, Love your enemies.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

On the under side of the lower wings is a white spot of the form of a C. "This spot," says old Geoffroy, "caused this butterfly to have the name of gamma given to it, and its colour of Diable enrhumé ( sic ), as also the singular cut of its wings, has caused it to be called by others Robert le Diable ."
— from The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species by Louis Figuier

It ran suspended to a wire on its trials but failed of free flight, in consequence of defective equilibrium.
— from Flying Machines: Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship by William J. (William James) Jackman

I came on deck early in the morning; and, as I looked out aft, they appeared receding fast on the larboard-quarter, across the bright blue sea.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

The public guidance of the state thus falls to one class of minds, the activity of speculative discussion to another; though accident 369 may produce, here and there, a superior individual, comprehensive or dexterous enough to suffice for both.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

They had there drawn up a list, decided to meet again to deliberate in case of double electoral returns, and had named a committee charged to convoke all the companies regularly.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

The Count of Monte-Cristo and Haydée, who seemed inseparable, came on deck every morning at dawn, and each evening walked back and forth, admiring the gorgeous sunset and watching the shades of night as they gradually settled down upon the wide expanse of the waters.
— from Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

Whereas the average Spanish, like the average English lad, has a strong dash of the Quixote and is capable of disinterested enthusiasm.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly